Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:26:01 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pcmcia card reader Message-ID: <20020723172601.GA11562@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <20020723.010714.07693686.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20020723001420.E6100-100000@ip134-053-131-078.s131.muohio.edu> <20020722212102.H63571-100000@thought.int.holo.org> <20020723.010714.07693686.imp@bsdimp.com>
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"M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> probably said: > "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> writes: > : I believe that most (all?) such devices have virtually no real logic on > : them, and merely provide a little hardware "glue" between the PCMCIA > : and the flash. The flash itself even provides the CIS manufacturer/card > : strings; they vary from CF to CF, but not from adapter to adapter. > Most of the actual readers (as opposed to the non-hot-swappable pci > cards for wireless) have real bridges on them. All the ones I've ever > tried work, modulo some pci issues with the 6729 based ones that I have. I think the question was about CF -> PCMCIA adaptors, not PCMCIA -> PCI adaptors. The SanDisk CF -> PCMCIA adaptors I have are just electrical adaptors, no logic on them, and it depends on the flash if they'll work and not on the adaptor (but every flash card I have works). P. -- pir pir-sig@pir.net pir-sig@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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